Re:Let's Settle This
by Traster on Sunday January 09, 2022 @06:35PM
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That's actually quite funny, I would say gist is pronounced jist but only because it's clearly a play on the word "jist" in the first place. Like a branded version of a generic term - like tumblr where we all know it's actually tumbler rather than tumblr but with a different pronounciation due to copyright.
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Re:Let's Settle This
by chrismorgan on Sunday January 09, 2022 @07:21PM
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Gist is a word. Jist is a misspelling of gist or just, no more.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gist%2Cjist&ye... makes me wonder just what happened around 1840. I suspect https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_the_Little_Frenchman_Wear... (uses jist regularly as a misspelling of just) may have something to do with it.